Powerful? You mean a powerful symbol of how far we have gone from having an independent judiciary? A judge expanding his own propaganda when punishing a man for exercising his fundamental democratic rights.
It isn't either, in my view. The decision is the sentence. That isn't what the complaint about. Nor is this a matter of case management....
It is a q of whether it is appropriate to use a newspaper article abt a highly controversial issue when sentencing a psn for protesting against government policy on that exact issue; & to do so in express agreement with the government policy against which the man was protesting.

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10 Jan
Surprise, surprise. The Year Zero idea that we can end a pandemic through vaccination - which has never happened before - has feet of sand. Every other respiratory pandemic has ended through exposure, natural immunity and evolution to less fatal strains.
blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/01/04…
I say Year Zero because the singular feature of the reaction to this pandemic has been the refutation of all prev experience of how pandemics develop & how they are addressed; & all previous pandemic planning, right up to October 2019, as I set out below:
That is not to say that vaccines might not have a part to play. They might. But the fact that vaccines take years to develop is not merely due to the need to test them adequately for adverse reactions. It is because of the need to test their effectiveness.
Read 8 tweets
7 Jan
‘Anyone who stands outside hospitals saying theyre empty really need to grow up.’
The Buffoon.

The question is whether they are any busier than average for the time of year.
Stop lying.
This is an excellent resource:
https://t.co/69IIBYEp5m
See the ‘once in a century pandemic’ ‘crisis’ marked in yellow. Image
Read 4 tweets
19 Dec 20
Tyrannical governments drunk on power and governing through lies are not legitimate. Are never legitimate.

The social contract is broken asunder.
Lies. We are governed on the basis of a tissue of lives.
Those responsible will pay for this.
And this is what they are doing to good people across the country.

Shame on them.

Shame on all who have enabled them.

Read 7 tweets
17 Dec 20
I see that Hancock is still promoting the lie of asymptomatic transmission. Without that lie, the whole house of cards - anti-social distancing, masks, closing hospitality and restricting day to day life - would collapse. aier.org/article/asympt…
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19 Nov 20
I made my submission to the @HLConstitution Committee yesterday. Here are some submissions about the WHO's pandemic advice from as recently as October 2019. In short, it does not remotely support anything approaching lockdowns. apps.who.int/iris/bitstream…
The report gave the following advice:
(1)‘Active contact tracing is not recommended in general because there is no obvious rationale for it in most Member States. This intervention could be considered in some locations and circumstances to collect information on the characteristics of the disease...
Read 32 tweets
11 Nov 20
This is a quite disgraceful and shameful update from the @barcouncil. Not *one word* on the government's decision - pushed through Parliament days after it was announced - to strip - without reservation - cardinal democratic and fundamental rights.
r1.dmtrk.net/4CGD-YDFW-0545…
Not so much as a whisper about the fact that the government has, by secondary legislation imposed under an Act that was before never envisaged to give such widespread powers:
- Removed wholesale the right to protest - something that even this government has said, in representations to *Zimbabwe* should not be done in response to this very virus;
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